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Show Heaton desires to make himself 'available to you' The Desire party's academic vice presidential candidate, Trevor Heaton, says he has the desire" to serve SUV and its students. Heaton is a senior pre-physical therapy major/Spanish minor from Cedar City. His activities at SUU include being a member of Sigma Chi national fraternity and serving past positions in student government. It was through these activities that Heaton says he became familiar with parliamentary procedure, used extensively in senate meetings. Heaton also served an LOS mission to Guatemala. Heaton says he has many projects he would like to work on, if elected. N ot only would he work toward achieving the Desire party's general goals, he would work to accomplish his own, he says. The main project of Heaton's is to work closely with the Clubs and Organizations group. He says he plans to form a comm ittee of senators, himself included, that would interact on a regular basis with each organization's president or representative. Heaton says that by doing this, he can be better infonned of the group's needs, therefore furthering the club's progress and furthering SUU. This committee is just part of II Trevor Heaton Heaton's plan to make himself more accessible to students, he says. "I am looking forward to making myself available to you," says Heaton. /iI desire to be involved with fellow students who want to make a difference on the SUU campus." Another project Heaton says he would work on is to continue the Open Forum meetings on Tuesday before the senate meeting, a project established by current Academic Vice President Maren Maclean. He says he would expand on the idea, however, by encouraging more communicating between the s·enators and their Deans. Heaton says he wants to be involved not just with allocating money- he wants to represent the students in their academic concerns. "I would like to send the senators into the classroom and communicate with them, educating each different college as to where their money is going and find out their particular needs," he said. Finally, Heaton says he would like to see more money going toward academics with improvements in tutoring, and especially in the computer labs. Heaton says he hopes to continue the excellence that previous administrations have established here at SUU. "I'm excited to see SUU progress," he said. Holman wants senate to move into high gear Mosaic candidate Alli Holman has taken the first step in her quest to be the next SUUSA academic vice president by making it through the primary elections held last week. It would mark the first time in the university's history that a studen t not on campus has been elected. However, Holman, who is currently in Washington D.C. working as an intern for the office of U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), has been very active as a student at SUU. In the past,Holman, a senior English major from Park City, Utah, has served as the SUUSA Clubs and Organizations director, the 1994 Thunderbird Awards chair, a Presidential Ambassador, and is a Utah Leadership Academy graduate. "The current senate is doing a really good job," said Holman, " but they have been focusing mainly on senatorial projects and controlling weekly funding. What I'd like to see the senate do is take their money and get away from the weekly allocation business because I think that it is taking up too much of their time." She said she'd like to see senators take a more active role in the education process. " I'd like to see the senators do more in-depth programming; curriculum Alli Holman I changes when needed," Holman said of changes she would like to make. "I would like to sec more long range planning put into effect; things that will last and continue on year after year." Holman said she intends to use much of the experience that she bas learned working as an intern in the nation's capital if she is elected. " In the U.S . Senate," Holman said, "when they are debating an issue, they would hold a hearing and they would invite people to come and speak for or against an issue. Whenever an issue is brought before our senate I would like to organize a hearing that wilJ seek out opinions from both sides of the issue. "I would like to see more thought out programs that will positively impact the current students as well as students in the future," said Holman. "I can see that the senate having a big impact and that is where they should be channeling their energies, not in weekly funding." Holman said that although she would like to see changes that would emulate the U.S. Senate in some ways, she is confident that there will be considerably less red tape because the SUV senate does not have to deal with many of the power plays so common in Washington D.C. |
